Fiction, Historical
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The Women of Harvard Square
by M. Lynn Greene
It’s July 1775, the start of American independence from the British Crown, and George Washington’s Continental Army has set up headquarters in Cambridge Massachusetts, the home of Harvard University. When eighteen-year-old Hannah...
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The Governor's Granddaughter
by Theresa Redmond
Margaret Gordon is born around the year 1800 on Prince Edward Island, a British colony under the shadow of her grandfather’s shameful political misdeeds and actions, leaving the Island’s settlers caught in an unjust landholding system and...
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Matriarchs of the Hoople Creek Loyalists
by John Sliter
“Matriarchs of the Hoople Creek Loyalists” is a series of historical fiction stories about seventeen women and their families who helped to settle Upper Canada along a small creek in eastern Ontario. Their stories reflect their struggle to...
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Kate and the Composers
by Joanne Culley
A blend of fact and fiction, Kate and the Composers follows Kate Bourke, a young girl who emigrates from Ireland with her family to make a new life in Toronto in the late nineteenth century. After leaving school in Grade 8 to help support her...
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A Flicker of Time
by Neil Katz
On special assignment, young journalist Annie is sent to interview Jack Cohen, a 107-year-old man living in a seniors’ care home, Jack eagerly shares his life story—one that stretches across a century of history, from the Great Depression and...
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Smoked
by Lauren Reaville
Vengeance! Fifteen year old Ruth swore that she would kill the five outlaws who had left her destitute--no home, no family, no food, no money and no future. After trailing the outlaws for six years, as the last one lay dying on his deathbed, she...
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No Secrets Among Sisters
by Amy Terrill
Once at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her temper erupts, putting her career in jeopardy...
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The Monmouth Manifesto
by James Arnett
1782---George Washington “I demand the guilty—Cap Lippicott” “that villain Moody” The American Revolution is America’s first Civil War. “Loyalists’—those in the American colonies loyal to the British Crown and the colonial governments—see the...
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A War, A Life
by Margaret Schweitzer
A War, A Life chronicles the life and times of the author’s maternal grandfather, a man she never met and knew very little about. By piecing together historical records detailing his military service in the two world wars of the 20th century,...
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The Trinity
The Indian, The Half Breed and The Other Guy by C. Gerald Sutton
In 1967, three veterans’ lives are upturned when they learn that a Dutch woman named Sara is searching for her father, a Canadian Indian and WWII vet. She has reason to believe that her long-lost parent is either Laurent Courchene, a steadfast...
